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Hey. Hey you.

You like musicals?

(Do be aware, there's also a lot of puzzles.)

Quick tip: If this game seems appealing at all, you should consider playing the original Evil Genius first. This game is just a polished and updated version of that one.

While this game is pretty easy, rather slow paced, a bit unbalanced, and a bit bugged at times, it's a game with a lot of charm and character. Don't let the bad reviews stop you. This game had a very rough launch, and it took a lot of updates to get this game to the state it's in.

Now with that out of the way, let me ask you this: You like bond villains? You wanna own an island lair, fill it with dangerous and outrageous traps, and beat up would-be goody two shoes? This game has that in spades. We got all kinds of traps. Shark pits. Laser walls. Poison gas. Poison darts. Freeze rays. Man-eating plants. Exploding dogs? Fake vaults? Boxing gloves? Pay walls?!? All this and more.

Of course, keeping this death trap running are your minions, who will run your lair to the best of their abilities. Yellow worker minions who carve out your rooms, red muscle minions who beat and/or shoot anyone you don't like, purple deception minions so you can better keep agents out of your lair, and green science minions who fix anything that breaks, and help you unlock bigger and better toys. And don't forget henchmen. Specialty characters who are (hopefully) tougher than your average minion, and come with unique and fun abilities (hopefully). Unfortunately, there's only 5 that you can keep under your employ at a time, and some are clearly and obviously better than others. Kind of disappointing considering some of the nonsense you have to do to recruit some of them. Consider using the sandbox mode to see what each one does. And of course, lowly worker or dignified henchman, if you're not liking their performance, you can personally kill them, removing the waste of space, and even providing a useful stat boost for anyone who witnessed it.

And of course, the Evil Geniuses themselves. There are a total of 4 in the base game, with a 5th one as DLC. There's a Billionaire weapons tycoon, a militant Stalin impersonator, a scientist with a weird helmet, a sinister former spymaster, and an eco-terrorist Ms. Freeze. While some are better gameplay wise (Maximillian's passive income and higher starting minion cap is great for beginners, while Red Ivan can just throw muscle minions at nearly every problem he faces), they all have their own unique abilities, campaign, look for their inner sanctum, and doomsday device, which each have unique effects when used on the world stage.

I would suggest seeing some actual gameplay footage for yourself before you buy the game, just to get a chance to see how the game plays. It's one of those "love it or hate it" kind of games.

Hey there! Do you like minigolf? Yes? Well good news! This game is a full blown minigolf videogame, and it's hecka good. How good? Let me tell you the ways:

* A series of colorful courses, each one very different from the rest, that are populated with various terrain, environmental hazards, and enemies of various types, brought together to test your golfing skills.
* A simple set of controls that allow the player to perform all sorts of wicked stunts.
* A host of unlockable items, including extra stages, more characters, and increasingly cool-looking balls, that provide actual rewards for playing the game.
* A two-person, turn-based multiplayer that allows you to wreck your friend's self-esteem in a variety of gamemodes, in both local and online.
* A delightful artstyle, sound design, and soundtrack, that come together to build a unique experience.
*An active development team that is listening to its fanbase, and is hard at work to make the game more polished and enjoyable.

Before you buy this, here are a few things to keep in mind:

*This game has a few technical issues. Dark stages cause massive slowdowns, and there are still a few bugs lurking beneath the surface. The Devs are working to iron them out, and the game is mostly polished, but if you aren't willing to put up with bugs, I'd wait this one out. (Tip: you can avoid lag at specific stages by putting in the command -safeboot in the steam settings before you launch the game)
*At the time of this review, online multiplayer, while functional, is in the beta stage. See above.

Guns and Robots can best be described as World of Tanks meets Loadout. Let me explain why:

It uses the World of Tanks method of resolving objectives. If you blow up, that's it, you're out. If everyone on one side dies, the game is over. The objective rarely is considered in most matches because of this. It also uses the idea of disarming an opponent based on where you shoot. Shoot the feet, you slow the opponent. Shot the arms, you disarm it. Shoot the head, you impair it's vision.

It's like Loadout in that, in order to succeed, you have to experiment with your build. There are a sea of different parts, whcih are used to make modules, the components of your robot. Each robot is made up of one chassis, one engine, one body type, one battery (or two), one head unit, and 2 to 4 weopons and weapon frames. This means you can tailer the bot to match your strategy as much as you wish. To make this more absurd, you can equipt up to two devices, which allow you to pull the game to your advantage.

Also like loadout, you ave to buy every part. Unlike Loadout, however, there is a limited inventory for each part, and each part can only be used on one robot at a time, so you are encouraged to just have one, with a few spare pieces to mmix it up a few times.

In short, it's intense, it's annoying, but once you deal with it, it can be a really good game. Or a really bad one.

This game is just another title from Double Fine. And we all know that that means...

There are three qualities to this game that make it worthy of the hype it has gotten. For Simplicity's sake, I'll label them.

It's true to the source material.
This is suprising since the source material is just Metal. Metal songs, and metal cover art, and that's it. Now drive around the land that the game takes place in, and tell me that you can't take a screenshot of ANY LANDMARK, slap a random cover title on it, and tell someone that it's a real CD cover. This is quite spectacular, but it's nothing for Double Fine. They seem to specialize in surreal locations that others couldn't imagine existing. They made Psychonauts, after all. They also use metal instruments for all background songs. ALL OF THEM. (Sadly, you won't hear it that often because you're too busy listening to the 107+ metal songs on the radio in your car) If you are a hardcore Metal fan, you won't be disappointed.

Characters applenty.
As a Double Fine game, it makes sense that every character has lines for any situation that they can get into in game. Your allies sees Eddie play a song? Compliments come in. They see Eddie take off? They can say that your wings look cool, or tell you not to leave them, depending on the circumstances. Also, the commentary is hilarious. The guy that takes the case though, is Eddie Riggs, the main character, who is voiced by Jack Black (the voice behind Po in Kung Fu Panda, among others). He takes the cake by staying true to the character of a Metal Roadie thrusted into the world of Brutal Legends, all the while showing off his incredible comedy skills.

Real Time Strategy goes fast paced.
Now, when have you heard strategy and intense being used together. At all? It's incredibly rare, and hard to pull off, but Brutal Legends did it. They made a Strategy game that's more than amassing troops and sending them at the enemy base before they reach yours (Although that still works). With nuke solos, powerful double teams, and various other nasty tricks to pull, the RTS element of the game, the Multiplayer Stage Battles, is incredible, capable of turning the tables with the right move, and mixing hack and slash into there so you can join the fun of killing your enemy's troops over and over again! And with three different factions, each with their own playstyle and strategies to pull off, you can enjoy it again and again.

If you kile RTS games, Metal, or the works of Double Fine, this is a game that won't disapoint. If you have an aversion to any of these, then run now, and never come back.